Peer Effects in Education: A Survey of the Theory and Evidence

By Dennis Epple, Richard E. Romano. 2011

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Random Coefficients on Endogenous Variables in Simultaneous Equations Models (2014, background): “Sacerdote (2011) and Epple and Romano (2011) give extensive surveys of this literature.”
Peer Effects in Microenvironments: The Benefits of Homogeneous Classroom Groups (2014, background): “An extensive theoretical literature explores different models through which academic peer effects may operate ðEpple and Romano 2011Þ.”
Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2016, result): “While in general the literature on peer effects in education shows mixed results, the few studies dealing with gender peer effects tend to agree that more girls in the classroom improve test scores (Epple and Romano, 2011; Sacerdote, 2011).”
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation (2010, background): “These effects also play a prominent role in policy debates concerning ability tracking, racial integration and school vouchers (for a recent survey, see Epple and Romano 2011).”
Identification and Estimation of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments (2017, background): “The widespread importance of this phenomenon across fields and disciplines has led to a rich literature focusing on social interactions (Manski, 1993; Brock and Durlauf, 2001; Graham, 2008), peer effects (Bramoullé, Djebbari, and Fortin, 2009; Epple and Romano, 2011; Sacerdote, 2014), networks (Grah”
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation (2020, background): “…is adopted.24 Additionally, we control for up to third-degree polynomials of cohort size, as peer composition may potentially be correlated with cohort size (Epple and Romano, 2011).25 Finally, the vector includes the proportion of female students in the language track in the same high school…”
Network Effects and Social Inequality (2012, background): “…is it necessary to do so given the availability of useful review essays (see Boyd 1989 on migration; Calvó-Armengol et al. 2009, Sacerdote 2011, and Epple & Romano 2011 on education; Durlauf & Ioannides 2010 on economic research; Marsden & Gorman 2001 on labor markets; Pampel et al. 2010,…”